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Christoph Weigel

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Freitag, 29.04.2016

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The US air strike that hit the hospital in Kundus/Afghanistan as of October 3rd, 2015, does anybody remember? It had a brief coverage in European media but following some formal excuses by the US government ("Oops, 'was a mistake, sorry...") few people remained interested in finding out what really happened. Among them a journalist of 'The Intercept', May Jeong. Her story reveals that the airstrike on the kundus hospital was no one-off: "According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, between 2014 and 2015 there was a 50 percent increase in the number of threats or attacks on medical facilities in Afghanistan that were reported to the organization. Unlike the headline-grabbing Kunduz strike, many of these small slights and violations go unnoticed, even as they chip away at something much more integral."

Quelle: May Jeong EN theintercept.com

Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing

W hen the Taliban overran Kunduz last September after a monthlong siege, the northern Afghan city became the first to fall to the insurgency since the war began in 2001. A week earlier, many Kunduz residents had left town to observe Eid ...

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